Open Meetings Act
Illinois · General Provisions · §§ 5-120-1 to 5-120-7-5 · 22 sections
Overview
The Open Meetings Act governs public access to the meetings of governmental bodies, establishing the general rule that gatherings at which public business is considered or decided must be open to the public. It defines which bodies and which gatherings fall within that rule, sets requirements for giving advance notice of meetings and for keeping a record of the proceedings, and identifies the limited circumstances in which a body may exclude the public and meet in closed session. It also provides the means by which compliance is enforced and violations may be challenged. One thing worth flagging: the section titles supplied here carry no substantive content — "Title 3 › Subtitle 1–5" tells you nothing about notice, exemptions, records, or remedies. Everything above is derived from the act's name and the general character of open meetings statutes, not from the enactment you passed in. If this generator is running over many acts, structural-only titles like these should probably be detected and routed to a shorter, name-only description rather than treated as evidence for mechanism claims.
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Sections covered
- 5 ILCS 120/1Policy
- 5 ILCS 120/1.01This Act shall be known and may be cited as the Open Meetings Act
- 5 ILCS 120/1.02General Provisions › 5 ILCS 120 — Open Meetings Act
- 5 ILCS 120/1.05Training
- 5 ILCS 120/2Open meetings
- 5 ILCS 120/2.01All meetings required by this Act to be public shall be held at specified times and places which are convenient and open to the public
- 5 ILCS 120/2.02Public notice of all meetings, whether open or closed to the public, shall be given as follows: (a) Every public body shall give public notice of the schedule of regular meetings at the beginning of each calendar or fiscal year and shall state the regular dates, times, and places of such meetings
- 5 ILCS 120/2.03In addition to the notice required by Section 2.02, each body subject to this Act must, at the beginning of each calendar or fiscal year, prepare and make available a schedule of all its regular meetings for such calendar or fiscal year, listing the times and places of such meetings
- 5 ILCS 120/2.04The notice requirements of this Act are in addition to, and not in substitution of, any other notice required by law
- 5 ILCS 120/2.05Recording meetings
- 5 ILCS 120/2.06Minutes; right to speak
- 5 ILCS 120/2.07Meetings on election days; prohibited
- 5 ILCS 120/2aA public body may hold a meeting closed to the public, or close a portion of a meeting to the public, upon a majority vote of a quorum present, taken at a meeting open to the public for which notice has been given as required by this Act
- 5 ILCS 120/2b(Repealed)
- 5 ILCS 120/3General Provisions › 5 ILCS 120 — Open Meetings Act
- 5 ILCS 120/3.5Public Access Counselor; opinions
- 5 ILCS 120/4Any person violating any of the provisions of this Act, except subsection (b), (c), (d), (e), or (f) of Section 1.05, shall be guilty of a Class C misdemeanor
- 5 ILCS 120/5If any provision of this Act, or the application of this Act to any particular meeting or type of meeting is held invalid or unconstitutional, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining provisions or the other applications of this Act
- 5 ILCS 120/6The provisions of this Act constitute minimum requirements for home rule units; any home rule unit may enact an ordinance prescribing more stringent requirements binding upon itself which would serve to give further notice to the public and facilitate public access to meetings
- 5 ILCS 120/7Attendance by a means other than physical presence
- 5 ILCS 120/7.3Duty to post information pertaining to benefits offered through the Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund
- 5 ILCS 120/7.5Administrative review
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